When I first entered the art of photography, a long, long time ago, I photographed a lot of cowboy work. Kind of like street photography, but home on the range. I live in cowboy country and this particular ranch had as its goal to keep the west western. by that I mean that they used, and still use, traditional ways of working their cattle. A man on a horse will ride into the herd of mother cows with their calves, pick out a particular calf, and all of them get picked, rope them by their heels and drag them out. Two cowboys will grab onto the calf and hold them down to get their innoculations while another cowboy standing nearby holds a hot branding iron that will be used to brand the calf with the ranches particular brand. The man at the left was 85 years old when this image was made. He was the head horse wrangler, and he did the branding. The young man with the white shirt on was his nephew and the one on the left was there to do the inoculation. All of that took place in probably fifteen seconds, where upon the calf is released to go back to their mother cow. And yes, it is almost like the show Yellowstone without the extreme violence, fist fighting and extreme profanity. And BTW, the ranch where much of the series was filmed is just a few miles directly east of me in West Texas.
I used a Mamiya RB-67 camera with a normal lens, no filter and Kodak Tri-X film
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